We cannot staff for 'what ifs': The social organization of rural nurses' safeguarding work

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 259-269

  Mackinnon, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Institutional ethnography; Nursing work; Patient safety; Rural nursing; Safeguarding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MANPOWER; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; STANDARD;

CANADA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-CHILD NURSING; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84864913875     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00574.x     Document Type: Article

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